Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-01-01

Tho OccuDatIon of Model Too Passive 10
 He Attractive to Natives-Great Change
 for the Better fin the American Thy
 sique.
 A famous Amercian sculptor adver-
 tised, few days ago, for male mOdel.
 Of course. if he had wanted female
 model he would not have had to take
 that trouble. for female models are so abundant that it is scarcely hyperbOllcai
 to say s'the woods are full of them" But
 are there no professional male models'
 .sOh, yes. r the sculptor said, there are
 twelve or fifteen of them in New York.
 I know them all. and if there happens 10
 be one among them who is exactly what
 I want when have a statue to model, l
 of course engage him But my experience
 has been that l must go into fresh helds
 to find what want. So l advertise. and
 it is astonishing what a number of men
 offer themselves in response, men oi me
 figures. of various types. Of course, l
 am looking for a particular type, not
 simply for a fine figure, and, eonse- 0uentIv. have to % over a large field sometimes before find just the one who
 meets my requirements. American men have us fine figures as American
 women, but it is seldom that they Will accept of the profession of a model lt is too passive an occupation, and its gains are too small for if tO be attractive to them So am most likely to have to find my men among the Irish or Germans, who are, in my opinion, the best models Ont of n great number who came in an- swer to my advertisement the other | day, I selected two, neither of whom had ever served as a model before One is of | Scotch descent, the other German. One | of them has, l believe. no other Occupa- | tion. and the other is in a business that | will not be likely to take much of his | time in the winter months. The majority | of the professional male models are Ger man or Irish, though there are two or | three Frenchmen or Italians among
 them, who are rather open tO the suspi- ciOn of being played out models from the
 other side.
 FOR PAINTERS AND SCULPTOES.
 ssThe same models. of course, serve for | both painters and sculptOrs. The former require them for shorter time than the SculptOrs do, and so custOmarily engage | them by the hour, paying them jO or IJ cents per hour. The sculptOrs engage for longer time and pay lower rates l pay my men Sl2 a week each, but then I en- | plOy them during six months or a year. | In that time there are occasionally weeks | in which I am out of town, or not work | ing, when the model does not even have | tO put in an appearance, but his salary goes right along all the same It is just
 that it should. for it is not his fault that | I am not at work.
 .'The hours of work are long, but the | toll, for the model Is ma ie as easy as possible. am an carly riser and a hard I e .F-H.. ..H- T -n- as rule, until ,. During all that time
 the model is supposed to be with me. | The duration of his maintenance of
 pose is from half an hour to an hour, according tO its difficulty and the strain | it is upon him. Then he has good rest, | as long as may be necessary. Fifteen | minutes tO half an hour Is generally | sufficient. The posing is all done nude,
 or nearly all, for even though tt may be | purpOsed tO clOthe the figure in modern | garb, in the statue the modelling of the | figure nude is Q primary necessity tO have | it's proportions accurate. There Is great | deal of difference among models in the | matter of posing Some, whose tlSUrc~
 meet all the requirements, are quite Use | less either because of nervousness or | lazincss. while others have the will force
 to hold an attitude unswervingly Hs bong
 as may be necessary, even in very diff cult positions.
 INTELLIGENT AND sELF-REsPECTING. | 'I have never had a b-a-a-a-d man ap- | ply for an engagement as q model. Those
 who offer their services are all clearly in | s-uf-Sut. St.II-reS pcCTtnE men. No. | tO
 not, as q rule, look for men who have hy
 training and exercise given an abnormal | development tO their muscles. The | natural development k what I require | The extreme EymnaStic development goes beyond the artistic. IL is true that some
 of the finest figures have known be lOnged tO good athletes. but they were | too high priced. Too high muscular development is likely to result in pro ducing merely an interesting anatomical study, not artistic perfection of beauty
 The athletic development of the Greeks and Romans, if we may judge by their statues, did not produce such develop ment as we see among our trained muScu- lAr Christians of to-day.
 ''Ies, l think that there is a fineneSs about the American figure, both mnle and female, that is not equaled in any other people in the world I mean that they seem to have n thoroughbred strain in them. There has been great change for the better in the American physique in the last twenty-five or thirty years That long NgO it seemed to be the fashion | among American mothers tO have pale | and delicate children possibly because | they thought they looked aristocratic l that way; but now they feed their chil | dren better, with bone and muscle nak- |
 ing food, and the little ones seem a | different race of beings. Go tO our schools l and colleges to-day and ycu will find | them filled with strong. vigorous. | healthy, active, clean limbed youngsters. | Look at the young men and women on | our streets, and sec what tall, fine figures | they have. l tell you they are simply | splendid. And VIC have to thank for it | the reform in our habits of eating and outdoor exercise in the highest degree. The English figure Is large and robust. but heavier, with cOarser lines, and will | not compare favOrably with the Ameri- can. I have no use for English models.